Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll follow this post with interest! Once again, here's something so obvious I've overlooked it! Good call DT- Bob Keene > >Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:31:22 EST >From: InfinityDT@aol.com >Subject: [Leica] M6 fill-flash 1/125+ > >Just to let fellow LUGers in on the results of something I've discovered. >I've found that when using the M6 and a flash for daylight fill-in on a >subject that occupies the central area of the frame, it is entirely possible >to get good results at least up to 1/125 shutter speed, as the flash has no >effect on the distant background so if the flash gets cut off at one end of >the negative it doesn't show. The ambient light records the background just >fine. I discovered this by accident; now I am going to run a test film to >see how much of the frame (and which side) is cut off at each shutter speed >above 1/50, which would tell me what the sync speed limit would be with >subjects occupying varying amounts of the frame. (Of course in low-light >situations where the flash needs to illuminate the whole frame the 1/50 would >still be the limit.) > >DT